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“The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.”

“Congenital naysayers are among the greatest stumbling blocks to thinking free. Rather than imagining how a new idea might possibly work, they instinctively think of all the reasons why it won't. They sincerely believe that they are doing everyone a favor by reducing the amount of time spent on bad or foolish ideas. But what they really do is undermine the creativity that can be harvested from thinking free.”

Thinking Believe Ideas Reason Might Creativity Amount Favors Foolish Block Reason Why New Ideas Sincerely Reducing Stumbling Time Spent Stumbling Blocks Naysayers

Author:Steven Sample

“A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.”

Answers Conversation Foolish

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Fear of the devil is nonsense. Fear of demons is foolish. The Spirit of God anointing the Christian heart makes the soul impregnable to the powers of darkness.”

Heart Soul Christian Spirit Darkness Devil Foolish Demon Nonsense Spirit Of God Anointing

Author:John G. Lake

“The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.”

Firsts Chance Loss Foolish Loan Second Chance No Second Chances

Author:Charlie Munger

“You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.”

Needs Reason Young Authority Foolish Immature

Author:Hugh Prather

“Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever”

Men Passion Fool Foolish Clever Foolish Man

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Nothing looks more foolish than tradition to those who have none.”

Looks Tradition Foolish

Book:The Paperboy

Source: The Paperboy

“As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.”

Self Matter Felt Foolish Self Centered

Book:Havemercy

Source: Havemercy

“Anger is the lowest emotion. It clouds the intellect and can make you do foolish things. You become blind to reason and react only with your body, without thinking. This leads to failure in every sphere. Uproot this evil from your system.”

Thinking Reason Body Evil Emotion Blind Clouds Intellect Your Body Foolish Spheres Lowest

Book:ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished

Source: ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished

“I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.”

World Moving Steps Foolish Insane Secure Fallen Territory

Book:Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa

Source: Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa

“It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.”

Humans Leader Groups Foolish Astonishing

Book:Dune: House Corrino

Source: Dune: House Corrino

“Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!”

Ifs Want Hard Wise Shapes Foolish

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.”

Men Wise Foolish Discouraged Persevere Trifling

Author:Magha

“The genuinely significant creation, whether an idea, or a work of art, or a scientific discovery, is most likely to be seen at first as erroneous, bad, or foolish. Later it may be seen as obvious, something self-evident to all. Only still later does it receive its final evaluation as a creative contribution. It seems clear no contemporary mortal can satisfactorily evaluate a creative product at the time it is formed, and this statement is increasingly true the greater the novelty of the creation.”

“You need to work yourself up into some kind of a state every morning and believe that you are doing something terribly important upon which the future of literature, if not the world, depends. Buddhism tells you that this is just a foolish fantasy. So, I try not to think too much about Buddhism early in the morning. From noon on, I think about it.”

Ifs Thinking World Needs Trying Believe Kind Important States Literature Morning Fantasy Too Much Buddhism Depends Foolish Every Morning Noon

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“The flowers or weeds that spring up tomorrow are in the seeds we sow today. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.”

Today Opinion Flower Tomorrow Spring Seeds Foolish Weed Never Change

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.”

“A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.”

“Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.”

Long Running Economy Economic Seasons Remains Foolish Rational Welcome Inevitable Stable Long Runs Economic Systems

Author:Jerzy Kosinski

“Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.”

People Humans Children Born Human Beings Watches Creativity Millions Creative Poet Creator Accepted Foolish Painter One In A Million

Author:Rajneesh

“We ought not to believe those who today, adopting a philosophical air and with a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culter and are content with the unknowable in a self-satisfied way. For us there is no unknowable, and in my opinion there is also non whatsoever for the natural sciences. In place of this foolish unknowable, let our watchword on the contrary be: we must know - we shall know.”

Knows Way Believe Self Today Natural Opinion Air Ought Philosophical Contrary Foolish Satisfied Tone Decline Superiority Adopting Natural Science

Author:David Hilbert

“Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.”

Passion Fool Foolish

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish...and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference.”

Differences Wise Appreciate Embrace Foolish Unhappy I Have Learned Unwise Appreciate Life Truly Happy

Author:Rasheed Ogunlaru

“The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.”

Men Giving Hours Failing Willing He Man Fairs Paid Foolish

Book:Succeeding With What You Have

Source: Succeeding With What You Have

“No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise, but may easily err, if he will take no others counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel; or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.”

Ifs Men Giving May Sometimes Wise Teaching Taught Masters Fool Foolish

Book:The Works of Ben Jonson

Source: The Works of Ben Jonson

“A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.”

Men Suffering Dies Hell Sick Foolish Reputation Physicians Hazards Unfaithful Sick Man

Book:The Saints' Everlasting Rest

Source: The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.”

Men House Wealth Authority Weak Foolish Roof Foolish Man

Author:Roger Chamberlain

“Where ignorance is bliss it's foolish to borrow your neighbor's newspaper.”

Ignorance Neighbor Foolish Newspapers Bliss Ignorance Is Bliss Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Author:Kin Hubbard

“The elemental simplicities of wilderness travel were thrills. They represented complete freedom to make mistakes. The wilderness gave those rewards and penalties, for wise and foolish acts against which civilization has built a thousand buffers.”

Mistake Wise Civilization Thousand Built Rewards Simplicity Foolish Making Mistakes Wilderness Penalties Elementals Complete Freedom

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?”

Earth Greater Calling Gold Deeper Stupidity Foolish Vanity Reasoning Soil Silver Considering Jewels Lighters

Book:Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

“War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.”

Way Trying War Purpose Accomplish Foolish Unintelligent Animalistic

Author:Jayne Mansfield

“A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.”

Men Should Trying Littles Existence Doubt Feet Fit Findings Shoes Foolish

Author:James Boswell

“I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.”

Way Trying Stills Play Jobs Chance Safe Foolish

Author:Ernie Pyle

“Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.”

Humans Matter Consequence Foolish Imperfect Aesthetic Scepticism

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. ... I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe.”

People Ifs Want Believe Looks Care Universe Given I Believe Stuff Bits Chance Goodness Foolish Tiny Generosity

Author:Julie Powell

“The biggest single problem of American parents today is the foolish idea that you just have to be a friend to your children. Kids need parents, not just another pal. This means being able and willing to say no, to challenge faulty thinking, and to expect accountability.”

Thinking Needs Mean Children Ideas Problem Kids Today Able Parent Challenges Willing Our Children Foolish Your Children Accountability Pals

Author:Steve Biddulph

“Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may be hanging downwards, trees growing backwards, or rain falling upwards? Where is the marvel of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon if we are to allow of a hanging world at the Antipodes?”

Ifs Men World Believe May Fall Growing Tree Feet Higher Rain Garden Foolish Backwards Babylon Rain Falling Antipodes

Author:Lactantius

“Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things”

Way Trying Determination Foolish Will Power

Author:Miyamoto Musashi

“Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.”

Ifs Art House Subjects Like You Shapes Tradition Letters Notion Foolish Desert Islands Precise

Author:Stanley Morison

“My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.”

Ideas Feelings Creativity Creation Thousand Ten Hundred Concerned Foolish Isolation Good Ideas Embarrassing

Author:Isaac Asimov

“It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man is, among many other things, the mistaken animal, the foolish animal. Other species doubtless have much more limited ideas about the world, but what ideas they do have are much less likely to be wrong and are never foolish. White cats do not denigrate black, and dogs do not ask Baal, Jehovah, or other Semitic gods to perform miracles for them.”

Men World Humans Ideas Asks Black White Animal Dog Concepts Cat Miracle Majority Species Obvious Foolish Mistaken Jehovah

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.”

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.”

Real Evidence Refuse Convinced Foolish

Author:Upton Sinclair

“Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.”

“Well my motto was "Never Monologue a Clegane", because Beric Dondarrion and Thoros were messing around with The Hound and Beric essentially got killed, even though he got to come back, and then the monologue is just a foolish thing to do. But it's also psychological state of mind, he can't get over his sister.”

Mind Wells States Foolish Psychological Things To Do State Of Mind Get Over Motto Monologues Hounds My Motto

Author:Alex Graves

“It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.”

Waiting Foolish Ships

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them.”

Ifs May Sometimes Courses Prayer Wise Creatures Essence Refuse Foolish Granted Grants Finite Compulsion Request

Book:Joyful Christian

Source: Joyful Christian

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